This is a publication in Pennsylvania.
Right up until the adoption of the Constitution of 1790 NO NON QUAKER could hold public office in that state. That's what that "no religious test" clause is about ~ to make it possible for non-Quakers to run for Congress!
The gentleman's statement in Virginia wouldn't be exceptional. In Pennsylvania it is exceptional.
The solution is to NOT LIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA. They'll just never be right in the head.
“We must be able not only to hunt but to protect ourselves from an overbearing government that does not do the will of the people.”
And what is wrong with that Mr. Hicks? Is it any more incorrect than why we have a first amendment? You are free to run your blather in the local rag because of its constitutional protection which is just as important today as it was in 1775. You see Mr. Hicks, certain rights are inalienable, and as such they transend time. Furthermore, there was no more a guarantee the colonists would defeat the best armed and as superior a fighting force as were the British during which time the idea of gun ownership was believed to be the underpinning of freedom. You are right in one thing Mr. Hicks, defeating as powerful an army as the Executive could muster today with small arms is not achievable but that also assumes the citizen soldiers would follow the orders from a tyranical government...I have faith in their choosing the correct course of action which is to follow legal orders based on our constitution.
So is he arguing that the Government should be disarmed before it becomes oppressive?